Notepad:OpenEducation Discussion

Open Education Resources Workshop Track.

GOALS FOR THE DAY: 1. What’s TRU up to and how does this impact us? 2. Capacity building?

1. Terry Anderson, Athabasca Open Scholars: values include ubiquity and persistence (your notes don’t disappear at the end of the course), “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, that wants it down.” Robert Frost Resource gateways include: ➢ OERCommons.org ➢ Online Books ➢ Creative Commons ➢ Saylor.org ➢ Virtual Canuck ➢ ResearchGate ➢ Sherpa/Romeo

2. Irwin Devries (Ph.D.), OL and OERu • Open design & development • OERs: exams, videos, projects • Notion of “disappearing ink” – textual material that has no persistence (incl. texts that are rented and end after 6 months, but also assignments that are disposable.) • OSS design